300 million tons of plastic are thrown out annually. What are you doing about? How can you help?

I use backpacks and duffle bags when going shopping.

I recycle.
Of course it’s too late. No matter what we do here in the US, there will still be people here who don’t care as well as all the other countries where people don’t care or who aren’t aware of the problem.
“It’s not my job.”

I start by buying as little plastic as possible. I carry my own bag into all stores.

I also use a back pack for groceries.

I repurpose plastic whenever I can.

I bring insulated bags to the grocery store. Not only do they reduce my use of plastic bags, but they help keep my frozen food frozen. The few plastic bags I do accumulate throughout the month I reuse as trash bags or recycle them by bringing them back to the grocery store. Even the ones I use as trash bags I often use more as a trash liner to limit how many I use.

My water bottle for exercise is glass. So much better than plastic! Put aside wanting to save the earth, I think it’s better for my body, and water tastes so much better from glass.

Citrus, and some other veggies and fruit, I don’t use plastic bags. Things like bananas and avacados, basically produce with a skin/peel that gets removed before eating.

Recycle plastic bottles, maybe half of what I use. Should be better, but that’s probably about accurate.

I wish where I lived used trash cans and recycle bins. Instead everything is out in plastic bags and left out. Sometimes I think about pushing to change this. I don’t know if they try to recycle the plastic trash bags.

My plastic goes to several places. Recyclable plastic goes in the “Blue bin”. Plastic grocery bags are reused to collect kitchen waste and line trash cans. When I have extra I bring them back to the grocery store where there are collection boxes. I also use them as packing material when I send things to family members in CA where they are banned. Shhhh…. Don’t tell anyone!
I burn some plastics in my high temperature woodburning stove with reburner where the firebox is well above 1000 F.

I wish the beverage bottle deposit was higher than 5 cents. I feel like if it were 25 cents, people would be less likely to throw water bottles in the trash.

I recycle and properly dispose of plastic that is not suitable for the recycle bin. What us not recycled goes to the landfill which in my mind is basically a holding area for future recycling.

I totally agree with @jca2 about the deposit being too low. Back in the early 1980s when the bottle bill started in NY 5 cents was worth about 20 cents in today’s money. It was worth the effort to pick up bottles and cans.
It is time to raise the price . It it were 50 cents you would not see an empty can or plastic bottle anywhere.

Agree 100% Lucky.